Christopher Isherwood

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.

What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books.

Sometimes awful things have their own beauty.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.

One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.

The town is an advertisement for itself; none of its charms are left to the visitor's imagination.